Reauthoring 3D blu-rays?

[Ghitulescu]

I looked into the archives of doom9 and in internet, too, but it appears that I couldn't find what I was looking for.

All the guides about 3D I was able to find are concerned with ripping 3D features into MKV/AVIs with transcoding of the left eye stream.

I would like to remove some languages and/or subtitles and to keep the structure. Alternatively I would like to keep the movie only. In the last case, maybe, with a small menu 2D <-> 3D choice, if possible.

If there is such a guide, please direct me to it.

Thank you

[rik1138]

Well, you wouldn't need the '2D/3D' choice on a movie-only disc... If you have a 2D setup, it'll play in 2D, 3D will play in 3D, the player will do this automatically. I'm not sure if you can force a 3D player/TV to play a 3D file in 2D only... Never tried to do that...

Haven't seen anything for re-authoring short of demuxing the entire disc and rebuilding it in Scenarist or something. I think the virtual files are something no one has tried to tackle yet...

[Ghitulescu]

Thank you for your answer.

The menu 2D-3D was needed not to force the 3D player to play it in 2D, but to prevent the wrong choice, for instance when the 2D player refuses to play the 2D part from a 3D movie. You say it's done automatically. Just perfect.

I wasn't thinking of Scenarist. I believe it's like shooting flies with cannons. I was thinking more of a sort of DVDshrink (no compression)/tsMuxer-like tool.

[rik1138]

Thank you for your answer.

The menu 2D-3D was needed not to force the 3D player to play it in 2D, but to prevent the wrong choice, for instance when the 2D player refuses to play the 2D part from a 3D movie. You say it's done automatically. Just perfect.

Yeah, it'll work automatically unless you specifically program the disc to pop up a message like 'this disc will only work in a 3D player'. I have no idea why studios do that... I understand some studios (like Disney) actually make a 'center-eye' version of the film for their 2D discs, and they always include a 2D disc with their 3D sets, but they still don't have to block you from viewing the 3D version on a 2D setup... Just seems unnecessary.

I wasn't thinking of Scenarist. I believe it's like shooting flies with cannons. I was thinking more of a sort of DVDshrink (no compression)/tsMuxer-like tool.

Yeah, Scenarist is definitely overkill... But I don't think any of the more 'public friendly' tools have even tried to support 3D yet... But for a straight movie-only disc with no menus, Scenarist can whip that out pretty quick.

[SquallMX]

Yeah, Scenarist is definitely overkill... But I don't think any of the more 'public friendly' tools have even tried to support 3D yet... But for a straight movie-only disc with no menus, Scenarist can whip that out pretty quick.

DVDFab support true 3-D Re-encoding, Full Disc or Movie Only, is slow as hell but it works.

[Ghitulescu]

I don't need reencoding (as I said the internet is full of reencoding guides) - just a remux of the needed streams back into a BD 3D structure. I can live with a movie only solution, if needed.

[rik1138]

Another option if you just want a quick-and-dirty way to remove all the stupid menus/lockouts, etc that studios add to a disc is to rip the disc with AnyDVD with the Speed Menus enabled. That will bypass everything and make a disc with a simple one-button menu that launches the film on any player...

Can't help with removing audio/subs though, but it will convert 3D 'only' discs to discs that will play on both 2D and 3D players...